Senior Workday Strategy & AI Product Leader

Forvis Mazars US; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvis Mazars, LLP is seeking a Senior Workday Product Manager to serve as the strategic relationship manager for the Workday ecosystem across Finance, HR, and enterprise shared services. You will guide capability planning, prioritize investments, and drive value realization with business and technical teams.

You will shape the Workday AI, automation, integrations, reporting, and extensibility roadmap, partnering with leaders to simplify processes and accelerate decision-making while ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 7+ years supporting enterprise applications, business transformation or product management.
• 3+ years working directly with Workday or comparable enterprise SaaS platforms.
• 10+ years supporting enterprise applications, business transformation or product management.
• Experience with Workday Financial Management.
• Experience with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM).
• Experience with Workday Professional Services Automation (PSA).
• Experience with Workday Talent Management, Recruiting, Reporting, Analytics, Employee Experience, or other strategic Workday capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary strategic liaison between business stakeholders and the Workday ecosystem across Finance, Human Resources, Professional Services Operations, and enterprise shared-services functions.
• Develop and maintain capability roadmaps that align business priorities with Workday investments and platform strategy.
• Develop and maintain a strategic vision for Workday AI, automation, and emerging platform capabilities, partnering with business leaders to simplify processes, accelerate user journeys, improve decision-making, and maximize business value across the Workday ecosystem.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, delivery teams, platform support resources, vendors, and business stakeholders, and Workday customer success and strategic advisory resources to evaluate platform capabilities, translate business needs into prioritized initiatives, and guide investment decisions related to Workday Extend, integrations, automation, reporting, analytics, and other strategic Workday capabilities.
• Lead the development of business cases, investment recommendations, and prioritization decisions for Workday-related initiatives.
• Champion organizational readiness, adoption, communications, and change management efforts associated with Workday enhancements and releases.
• Monitor business outcomes and value realization metrics, recommending continuous improvements across the Workday portfolio.
• Lead Workday governance forums, advisory boards, and stakeholder councils to align business leaders on platform priorities, investment decisions, roadmap direction, and value realization.
• Represent business priorities in strategic discussions with Workday and external advisors regarding future platform capabilities, product roadmap direction, industry best practices, and long-term platform investment opportunities.
• Monitor Workday roadmap updates, release communications, and emerging platform capabilities; advise stakeholders on business opportunities, adoption priorities, and potential impacts to enterprise processes and strategic objectives.
• Provide strategic oversight and governance for Workday initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives while maintaining accountability for outcomes rather than day-to-day technical execution.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to lead, influence, and manage relationships with senior business and firm leadership.
• Exceptional consultative, stakeholder management, and communication skills across Human Resources, Finance, Operations, and other business functions.

Skills

Workday

Product management

Stakeholder management

Roadmap planning

Analytics

AI-enabled functionality

Integrations

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Workday Extend

Workday Integrations

Analytics tools

Job description

Forvis Mazars, LLP is seeking a Senior Workday Product Manager to serve as the strategic relationship manager for the Workday ecosystem across Finance, HR, and enterprise shared services. You will guide capability planning, prioritize investments, and drive value realization with business and technical teams.

You will shape the Workday AI, automation, integrations, reporting, and extensibility roadmap, partnering with leaders to simplify processes and accelerate decision-making while ensuring